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  <h1>Saving a User Defined Perspective</h1>
  <p>If you have modified a perspective by adding, deleting, or moving (docking) views, you can save your changes for
  future use.</p>
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    <li>Switch to the perspective that you want to save.</li>
    <li>Click <a class="command-link" href=
    'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.savePerspective")'><img src=
    "PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <b>Window &gt; Perspective &gt; Save
    Perspective As...</b></a>.</li>
    <li>Type a new name for the perspective into the <b>Name</b> field.</li>
    <li>Click <b>OK</b>.</li>
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  <p>The name of the new perspective is added to the <b>Window &gt; Perspective &gt; Open Perspective</b> menu.</p>
  <h3 class="related">Related Concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/concepts-4.htm">Perspectives</a><br>
  <a href="../concepts/concepts-5.htm">Views</a>
  <h3 class="related">Related Tasks</h3><a href="tasks-9j.htm">Resetting perspectives</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-9d.htm">Deleting a user defined perspective</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-3.htm">Opening views</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-3e.htm">Moving and docking views</a>
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